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      - Finished updating the detector and ion complex chapters of the pCDR
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      - Modeling of the IR for the short-range correlations (SRC) LDRD
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      - Reviewing papers and posters for NAPAC19
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       - Preparation for and participation in the Zgoubi workshop
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      - Preparation of a paper on the figure-8 concept
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      - Work on the spin transparency experiment: spin tracking and meeting with collaborators
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      - Preparation of a TRL document for EIC simulation tools
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      - Spin tracking for the spin transparency experiment
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       - Completed chapter 6 for Pre-CDR
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       - Worked on addressing questions for Pre-CDR
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       - Hosted seminar for Grigory Eremeev
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       - Started putting together talks for ERL 2019
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       - Arranged for assembly of the LDRD at Fermilab
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       - Hosted talks for Steve Jamison and Stephen Webb
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       - Helped to prepare paper for EIC description for NAPAC
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       - Tried to get gallium shipment to VCU but rant into technical difficulties
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       - Consulted with Chris Hall from Radiasoft on a possible SBIR for the EIC cooler.
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      - Reviewed GTS gun paper
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       - Set up seminars for Steve Jamison and Steve Webb
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       - Worked with TJS Technologies on LOI for ERL merger deflector cavity.
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       - Attended SBIR meeting in Gaithersburg, MD
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       - Worked with Joe Grames to come up with required upgrades for LERF injector.
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       - Reviewed sensitive information with Brian Hanlon.
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       - Finalize documentation for isotope ERR
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       - Finished up editing the PreCDR-100, but I am sure it will be coming back at me! 
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        was successful, but several opportunities for improvement were noted , and have since been made by Kevin and Joe.   
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       - More interestingly, I had a telephone conference with Doug Wells, our isotope collaborator, presently at New Mexico Tech.  He has a follow-on patent being prepared on a
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       - July 22 - July 26: visit by Robert Bentley and Geno Santistevan, PhD students at New Mexico Tech.  They attempted
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         new technique for producing radio-isotopes, which he would like us to demonstrate.  His office sent us a non-disclosure agreement, but I have not heard back from Rhonda
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         to make thermal measurements (a bust) carried out FLUKA calculations to determine the amount of radiation
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         Scales if this is acceptable to JLab, so I don’t have the details.  I suggested that he passed the basic concept by Ethan Balkin to find out whether this would be
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         immediately following the irradiation and following the decay.  We have tentatively changed our irradiation
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         something that the DOE-ONP would support (financially, of course).  I looked at the previous patent and it is really interesting, but it is a new way of producing isotopes
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         protocol for 10 hour cool-down time rather than 24 hours initially proposed.  This enables us to extend the
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         that are already being produced by industry, so I am not sure that the DOE Isotope program will want to fund it (although they should).  I will keep you informed.   
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       - I have also been preparing an introduction to the Isotope Program for the as-yet-unscheduled ERR.  I am certain that they will need an introduction, but I don’t have a
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        handle on the rest yet.  We are having some difficulty with the isotope target approval, it needs a pressure vessel review which is going slow.  But we will work through
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        that. This afternoon, we are meeting to discuss the details of a transfer of unirradiated gallium to VCU via FedEx; lots of details to work through, e.g. does it stay
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         comments.  Also spent a lot of time with Sarah who finally got GPT running on the WiFEL Gun.  Sarah presented at
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        liquid? If not, will it freeze and burst the crucible, etc?  More fun than all of the bureaucratic hurdles we have to jump over.   
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        the Friday lunchtime poster session and had a lot of interactions with people (who would be surprised?).     
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       - I have been emailing back and forth collecting information on future NP projects world-wide for the AMICI conference mid-September. This will move to high priority in the
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         next two weeks.  I should probably give the talk at a CASA meeting when I get back.     
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August 29, 2019 Report - Aug 19 - Sept 13 Director - Todd Satogata

Todd Satogata 

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  Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
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Alex Bogacz 

  Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
     - ERL’19 paper on the LHeC ERL
     - SS III recruitment cont.
     - Machine support, OOC
     - Tech Transfer invention disclosure evaluation
  Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
     - Handbook article on ERLs
     - ERL’19 talk on the LHeC ER
     - Semi-annual grad. student review 
     - Machine support, OOC



Rui Li 

  Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
     - Impedance studies
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     - JLEIC collective instability studies
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     - CeC project
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  Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13) 
     - JLEIC collective instability studies
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     - CeC project
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     - JLEIC pCDR100
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Edy Nissen 

   Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
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Chris Tennant 

   Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
     - Participate in DOE's "AI for Science" Town Hall at ORNL
     - Spent time preparing a summary talk of Town Hall and presented at ML lunch series
     - Various travel arrangements (ICALEPCS, AI Summit)
     - Training (to be able to create web content on the jlab.org site, GEN101)
     - Met with Onish (DC power) about trim card faults and data available
     - Worked on LHeC CDR update appendix on "ERL Development..." I was asked to write
     - Met with Stephen Webb (Radiosoft)
   Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
     - Labor Day and a long weekend!
     - Help Gunn Tae with CCR simulations



Accelerator R & D - Yuhong Zhang

Yuhong Zhang 

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Max Bruker 

  Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
     - pCDR contributions
     -	Contributions to cooling section in NaPAC paper
     -	Initial design ideas for HV DC cooler
  Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
     - More pCDR-related work
     -	Further explore beam parameters and design choices of the HV DC cooler


Fanglei Lin 

  Previous two weeks (Aug 19- Aug 30)
       - Worked on the storage ring cooler project
       - Prepared tutorial material for ZGOUBI workshorp
       - Attended the ZGOUBI workshop
  Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
       - Work on the storage ring cooler project
       - Work on updating the interaction region design
       - Work on spin tracking using BMAD and ZGOUBI



Bhawin Dhital 

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Vasiliy Morozov 

   Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
     - Finished updating the detector and ion complex chapters of the pCDR
     - Modeling of the IR for the short-range correlations (SRC) LDRD
     - Reviewing papers and posters for NAPAC19
     - Preparation for and participation in the Zgoubi workshop
     - Preparation of a paper on the figure-8 concept
     - Work on the spin transparency experiment: spin tracking and meeting with collaborators
     - Preparation of a TRL document for EIC simulation tools
   Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
     - Work on the SRC LDRD
     - Spin tracking for the spin transparency experiment
     - Preparing for EINN2019 and PSTP2019




Amy Sy 

   Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
     - Continued H- linac optimization in TRACK. Rough linac optimization using MADX for optics design through matching sections between different components in the linac (i.e.
       matching from DTL tanks to SCL section). Transferred one version of "optimized" H- ion linac lattice to PyORBIT for comparison with TRACK - trying to understand 
       disparities between TRACK and PyORBIT simulations to best implement processes that are harder to do in TRACK, such as simulation of emittance growth through a stripping
       foil.
     - Working on PSTP2019 invited talk titled "Laser-driven polarized deuterium source". 
   Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
     - Continued work on linac optimization for reduced transverse emittance.
     - Continued work on the stripping chicane optics design and matching to the stripped beam distribution.
     - Continued work PSTP2019 talk




Computational Physics - Yves Roblin
Yves Roblin 

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     - CEBAF:
     - JLEIC
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Randy Gamage 

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River Huang 

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Isurumali Neththikumara 

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He Zhang 

   Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)     
     - Beam-beam effect - After inserting our symplectic tracking code into beambeam3d, the codes compiled successfully. However, me met some memory fault when running the 
       code. I tried to solve this issue and did fixed a few small bugs, such as a overflow of integer for factorial calculation, but the bug is still there. This work was put
       onhold since NAPAC posters/papers are due. Will continue in the next week.  
     - IBS calculation - We are benchmark our IBS rate calculation with others. After a few iterations, I think when we use the same formula and the same parameters, our
       results agree with BNL’s result. Meanwhile,  we noticed that even if the beam parameters are very close, our IBS time is about four times longer than eRHIC’s. But why?
       We suspect it is the lattice that leads to this difference. Next week we will investigate it. 
     - NAPAC - Prepared slides for a talk in SERIPO workshop. (Yuhong will present.) Prepared two posters. Writing two papers but haven’t finished them. 
   Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
     - Finish NAPAC papers. 
     - IBS analysis.
     - Start working on JSPEC benchmarking with Lanzhou experimental data.
     - Finish BB3D debugging.



Diagnostic Development - Kevin Jordan

Kevin Jordan 

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Joe Gubeli 

   Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
     - HPWS: New motor controller for the High Power Wire Scanner arrived. After some change in the wiring I was able to run some initial test. The new controller seems to run
       a little better than the older one but the parameters are not yet optimized. Had a telecom with our collaborators, Radiabeam, were we both tried to tune the parameters.
       After a little progress we decided that we need to get Aerotech involved.
     - Isotope: Little to no work on Isotope production
     - FAST: Received the slit plate and had it UHV cleaned. Had a trip scheduled but the folks at Fermilab realized at the last minute that they had a scheduling conflict with
       the cleanroom. The trip has been delayed to the end of September at the earliest.
     - IBIC: The paper and poster are completed. Waiting on local review/approval to submit the paper.
   Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
     - Short week with Monday being a holiday and Friday a travel day to IBIC. Will work some on preparing the Isotope crucible with gallium test shipment. The idea is to keep
       the gallium from freezing during transport. We will try using hand warms packed in the shipping container. It is the start of the month so I will be doing the monthly
       safety walkthrough as Safety Warden. The following week is the IBIC conference.



Michael Tiefenback 

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CASA Fellows
LERF - Steve Benson 

   Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
     - Worked on addressing questions for Pre-CDR
     - Started putting together talks for ERL 2019
     - Hosted talks for Steve Jamison and Stephen Webb
     - Tried to get gallium shipment to VCU but rant into technical difficulties
     - Reviewed GTS gun paper
     - Worked with TJS Technologies on LOI for ERL merger deflector cavity.
     - Worked with Joe Grames to come up with required upgrades for LERF injector.
     - Reviewed sensitive information with Brian Hanlon.
   Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
     - Submit proposal for change of SOW for the Cooling FOA for IMP work
     - Explore the possibility of changing the venue for the no-deflection merger test
     - Completed talks for ERL 2019
     - Finalize documentation for isotope ERR




Andrew Hutton 

   Previous two weeks (Aug 19 - Aug 30)
     - Finished up editing the PreCDR-100, but I am sure it will be coming back at me!  
     - On Friday, I met with Camille to give her some “insider” information on her new position.  
     - More interestingly, I had a telephone conference with Doug Wells, our isotope collaborator, presently at New Mexico Tech.  He has a follow-on patent being prepared on a
       new technique for producing radio-isotopes, which he would like us to demonstrate.  His office sent us a non-disclosure agreement, but I have not heard back from Rhonda
       Scales if this is acceptable to JLab, so I don’t have the details.  I suggested that he passed the basic concept by Ethan Balkin to find out whether this would be
       something that the DOE-ONP would support (financially, of course).  I looked at the previous patent and it is really interesting, but it is a new way of producing isotopes
       that are already being produced by industry, so I am not sure that the DOE Isotope program will want to fund it (although they should).  I will keep you informed.  
     - I have also been preparing an introduction to the Isotope Program for the as-yet-unscheduled ERR.  I am certain that they will need an introduction, but I don’t have a
       handle on the rest yet.  We are having some difficulty with the isotope target approval, it needs a pressure vessel review which is going slow.  But we will work through
       that. This afternoon, we are meeting to discuss the details of a transfer of unirradiated gallium to VCU via FedEx; lots of details to work through, e.g. does it stay
       liquid? If not, will it freeze and burst the crucible, etc?   More fun than all of the bureaucratic hurdles we have to jump over.  
     - I have been emailing back and forth collecting information on future NP projects world-wide for the AMICI conference mid-September. This will move to high priority in the
       next two weeks.  I should probably give the talk at a CASA meeting when I get back.    
   Next two weeks (Sept 2 - Sept 13)
     - Vacation: 6 days

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